Archive for the 'Design Strategy' topic

Designing the Right Things and Designing the Things Right at UX Immersion: Interactions. Move beyond inspiration and immerse yourself. Here are just two of the six industry leaders teaching master-grade workshops on groundbreaking interaction design skills you won’t find anywhere else. Enterprise Apps: To Boldly Simplify Where Nobody Has Simplified Before Hagan Rivers Learn the common design patterns […]

In this week’s article Josh Seiden and Jeff Gothelf tell us about an effective strategy for defining when a project is finished. Here’s an excerpt from the article: When is a project finished? For most of us, it seems pretty simple: when we ship the product or launch the service. But we need to take a step […]

In this week’s article we reprint an excerpt from Poornima Vijayashanker’s book “How to Transform Ideas into Software Products” on using design to create product differentiation. Here’s an excerpt from the article: We know the impact design has on a user’s experience and a product’s adoption. But many product designers don’t realize that design can also be […]

This week, we present an article written by Nathan Curtis encouraging designers and product managers to think of their design systems as the first step to delivering actual business value. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Focusing on style guide delivery as the climax is the wrong story to tell. A system isn’t a project […]

In this week’s article, we revisit the challenge of designing for web vs print. Richard Rutter thinks we should embrace the fluidity of the medium. Here’s an excerpt from the article Where a print designer is all powerful, dictating every aspect of the reading experience, the web designer must know to relinquish control into the […]

You’ve got a groundbreakingly innovative product idea, and you’ve assembled a crack team of designers. You know exactly what you want to do, but you’re unsure of how to do it. Without a framework to drive your product development, it’s Game Over.

Creativity isn’t just about expressing yourself. It’s also about solving problems by putting disparate pieces together to form a new, unique whole. Practical Creativity fuels the everyday work and once-in-a-lifetime breakthroughs of designers, engineers, and scientists.

The only job of application navigation is to get users to the right screen. Ideally, all of your users should find what they need in 10 seconds or less, and with only a few clicks. But many enterprise app navigation systems fall short. If you’re facing a much-needed nav overhaul and don’t know where to start, it can be overwhelming.

For the longest time, making a great experience for the user was a business-strategy luxury item. A great product only had to work and ship. A great experience was a nice-to-have, not a requirement. Times have changed. The cost of delivering a product is no longer a barrier to entry. Quality is no longer a differentiator. What’s left? The user’s experience.

In this week’s article, I advocate for the death of the ‘View Full Site’ link at the bottom of mobile (M Dot) pages. Here’s an excerpt from the article We provide the escape hatch because the M Dot’s experience isn’t complete. The M Dot site can’t have what the users need, because we’ve intentionally crippled it. […]